Fitness, Kids, Recipes and Life

crabmeat

Wow! It’s been a long time since I’ve posted! Super sorry about that! So much and yet absolutely nothing has been going on. If that made any sense, you let me know. I know what I was thinking in my head..not sure if it really came out the way it’s intended.

First, let’s get this out of the way. After weeks and weeks of consistently going to the gym, planning meal after meal, very carefully watching my calories, and carb intake; I have officially lost 7 pounds. All since Friday. All due to a nasty GI virus, that I still have. Saturday I walked, brace yourself, an entire 935 steps. All of them from the living room to the bathroom. And now that you know things about me that you really don’t need to know..

Easter here in our crazy house was fantastical! Actually nothing happened. Wait! Yes it did! We made Easter eggs with Kool-Aid. I saw the post floating around Facebook, and thought we’d try that. Had I found it on Pinterest, it would have been a Pinterest fail. Ok, so not a fail, but certainly not a PAAS coloring experience! The red turned out red, the purple turned gray and everything else dried various shades of orange.

The ol’ man hid plastic eggs for the lil’ monsters. Yes, even the older 2 liked looking for about 800 plastic eggs in our palatial abode. Of course, I’m kidding. About the palatial abode. Undoubtedly, we will find one in August with a moldy Twix in it. We don’t go super crazy here at Easter. Some people go nutty, almost like Christmas! The kids under our roof get a chocolate bunny, and 1 gift. And a roof. This year they got impostor Fitbits so they can start monitoring their steps and sleep. We are trying so hard to get them on the healthy track! New mamas: Listen up!! If you want your kids to have a healthy lifestyle, start ASAP! Once they develop bad habits, it’s soooooooo difficult to break those habits! What’s that song? 5-2-1-0 be a healthy hero! You totally sang the song in your head..admit it!

Since I woke up to snow yesterday morning, and it’s going to be cold for the next week, soup for dinner is still fair game! Seriously, if I had no sense of portion control, I would have eaten the whole pot. It’s a Pillsbury recipe, but I changed things around a little. It’s delicious. I served this bisque with the Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. It was a perfect combination. Everyone liked it! Even the one who likes NOTHING liked it. Only because I made hers without the crab. Apparently, I have a “made to order” kitchen.

Tomato Crab Bisque

1- 32 oz carton Bisque style tomato soup (any tomato soup is fine)

1- 7oz can Chopped green chiles

1 C Whipping cream

1 tsp Seafood Seasoning (from 6 oz container)

1 C Chopped cooked crabmeat (I used imitation crabmeat)

In large saucepan, heat soup and chiles to boiling over medium heat. Reduce heat to low.

With a wire whisk, beat in whipping cream and seafood seasoning until blended.

After much consideration, just to boost my traffic, I’m going to post pictures of half-naked men. Anyone object? See, on my Facebook page, I could post the most delicious recipe and get 3 likes. When I post a picture of a well built gentleman, with a screwdriver and no shirt, my page goes crazy. And I was thinking, man I wish my blog page got this much traffic!! Forget the Seafood Pot Pie and Snowman Ornaments, shirtless men seems to be the way to go!

I’m kidding, of course. You’re stuck with Seafood Pot Pie. Snowman Ornaments will be coming up on a later post. They are currently a work in progress and glitter is everywhere, totally driving the ol’ man crazy! It’s great!

Besides driving the ol’ man crazy, things have been busy. I did photos of my nieces and my daughter and the cutest lil’ newborn this weekend. When your youngest is 9, you forget how little they are at 16 days old. She was precious. Naturally, Ms. Autumn and my nieces are precious too. I mean, they are related to me.

Summer, Alyssa and Autumn

So precious. Right? Every morning, I ask Autumn how she slept. Why? Have no clue. Probably to see how bitchy, crabby, I meant crabby, she will be for the day. One day last week, this is how the conversation went:

Me: How’d you sleep?

Autumn: My back hurts. My bed is too hard. I need a sleep number bed. Yeah. That would be perfect. I would probably set it at 25.

Me: Staring at her with the blank look of “where the eff do you get these things from?” I don’t even know what to say to that. I almost told her to ask Santa for it. Total DUH moment. She knows I’m Santa.

Didn’t I mention you were stuck with Seafood Potpies? “Stuck” is a little harsh. They really are delicious. And the vegetables are cooked right in. The kids can’t possibly pick out every single pea. See my rant about peas here.